n. The state of being intractable; intractability.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The character or quality of being intractable. Also intractability.
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n. the trait of being hard to influence or control
Word Usage
"The humanities, unlike the natural sciences, had nothing to lose, or so it was thought, and, unlike the social sciences, they had no knowledge of the intractableness of the political matter."